ALMA North American Science Advisory Committee

ALMA North American Science Advisory Committee F2F 2014

Connection Info

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Presentation Links

08.30 – 09.00 Light breakfast snacks

09.00 – 09.15 Welcome & charges – Phil Jewell

09.15 – 09.45 NAASC Status and Community Feedback - Phil Jewell, Carol Lonsdale

09.45 – 10.15 Science Overview & Publications - A. Wootten, C. Brogan

10.15 – 10.45 ALMA Archive and Pipeline – M. Lacy, J. Kern

10.45 – 11.00 Break

11.00 – 12:00 Cycle 1, Cycle 2 Proposal Outcomes and PRP lessons- Hibbard, Remijan

12.00 – 13.00 Lunch.

12.45: Meet the NAASC

13.00 - 13.45 Policy Issues - Jewell, Hibbard, Bolatto

13.45 – 14.15 Community Outreach - Sheth / EPO / Community Outreach - Lonsdale / Community Support (data) - Sheth, Blue, Lonsdale

14.15 – 15.00 Current North American Plan for Development - Shannon, Randolph, Wootten

15.00 – 15.15 Break

15.15 – 16:00 ALMA2030 Discussion - Bolatto, Wootten, Brogan

Duration and Info

• 2014 ANASAC/NRAO Users Meeting, Charlottesville, VA
• 2014-05-28 08:30 - 17:00 EDT
• Duration: 1 Day

Location

• NRAO Room 230 - Stone Hall Building, 520 Edgemont Road, Auditorium, Charlottesville, Virginia 22903
• Logistics
• video hub phone 4348176283

Contact

• Leader: Phil Jewell, Al Wootten
• For additional information contact: Lyndele von Schill

Agenda

• Items pertaining to ANASAC Charges are in Blue.

Wednesday

08.30 – 09.00 Light breakfast snacks

09.00 – 09.15 Welcome & charges – Phil Jewell

09.15 – 09.45 NAASC Status and Community Feedback - Phil Jewell, Carol Lonsdale

• Overview (Jewell)
• Community Feedback and User Statistics (Lonsdale)
• SUGGESTED READING:
  • ALMA Ops & Const ppt for 2014 Users Committee (Jewell & Randolph): 2014UC_ALMAOpsConst.pdf
  • Summary of Feedback from the Cycle 2 Proposal Process from NA Users

09.45 – 10.15 Science Overview & Publications - A. Wootten, C. Brogan

• Science Overview, Publication Rate, Discussion (Wootten)
• NAASCScienceWorkshops2014

• ANASAC DISCUSSION:
  • Is the publication rate reasonable, and if not, what is the bottleneck in publishing the data?
  • Information about PI funding: what have people used to work on ALMA data?

• RELEVANT CHARGE:
  • ANASAC Charge #1: Scientific outcomes and impact from Cycles 0 and 1. Is North America doing well--what are the challenges?
  • ANASAC Standing Charge: To lead community outreach through leadership of workshops.

• SUGGESTED READING:
  • AprilMayAlmapapers
  • Published ALMA results
  • NRAO visitor support program website - Links to student support
  • NRAO Student Observing Support program

10.15 – 10.45 ALMA Archive and Pipeline – M. Lacy, J. Kern

• ALMA pipeline (Kern)
• ALMA Archive (Lacy)
• ANASAC DISCUSSION:
  • What more may be needed to make the archive a useful entry point for beginners and for data miners?

• ADDITIONAL READING:
  • Description & Screenshots of ALMA Dynamic Scheduler

10.45 – 11.00 Break

11.00 – 12:00 Cycle 1, Cycle 2 Proposal Outcomes and PRP lessons- Hibbard, Remijan

• Cycle 1, 2 Status & Cycle 3 Preparations (Hibbard)
• Cycle 2, 3 Capabilities (Remijan)

• ANASAC DISCUSSION:
  • ASAC Charge 2 (see below)
  • ANASAC discussion: is the feedback to proposers good? how can it be improved?
  • Is the technical assessment worthwhile?
  • Duplication check in OT, information to panels
  • ACTION ITEM for ANASAC: provide "science assessors" suggestions to populate panels in cycle 3

• RELEVANT CHARGE:
  • ANASAC Charge 2: Assess the status of Cycle 1 observations and progress made towards Cycle 2. For Cycle 1, are the data meeting user expectations, modulo the best efforts approach to early science? Are the data being released to the PIs in a timely fashion?

• RELEVANT READING:
  • Cycle 2 Results in SP
  • ALMA Status Report from March 2014
  • Duplication policy appears in Sec. 7.2.2. of the Cycle 2 Proposers Guide

12.00 – 13.00 Lunch.

12.45: Meet the NAASC

13.00 - 13.45 Policy Issues - Jewell, Hibbard, Bolatto

• Policy Issues (Jewell)

• ANASAC DISCUSSION:
  • Revise definition of "large program" (currently >=100 hrs). Should it be 50 hrs?
  • Timeliness of Treasury-type programs?
  • PI access to data before QA2 (anything new here?)
  • Why only 10% carry-over "A ranked" projects?

• RELEVANT READING:
  • Position papers by ARC Managers on PI early access to raw data
  • Extracts from ALMA PRP principles document (large proposals, A grades)
  • Current ALMA Change Request policies

13.45 – 14.15 Community Outreach - Sheth, Blue, Lonsdale

• Community Outreach and Diversity – Sheth
  • Outreach Events - Community Days, Webinars
  • Diversity Initiatives
• Community Outreach - Other Programs - Lonsdale
• Education and Public Outreach - Blue

• ANASAC DISCUSSION:
  • Is NRAO is successfully reaching the broader, non-expert community

• RELEVANT CHARGE:
  • Does the support from the ARCs continue to meet users' needs?
  • ANASAC Standing Charge:To provide a mechanism for widening ALMA's base within the community and feedback to the NAASC on community perception of ALMA.

• ADDITIONAL READING:
  • Review of Community Days (Sheth)
  • WebEx Review (Sheth)
  • ALMA Science and Training Events Google Calendar
  • NAASC Website - Community Days/"Come and Visit the NAASC"
  • Did You Know Flyer
  • Expanded science web pages

14.15 – 15.00 Current North American Plan for Development - Shannon, Randolph, Wootten

• Status
  • APP roll out. Developing VLBI model
  • Band 2, conclusions from meeting
  • Future calls
  • Plans for distribution of studies
    • Summary of completed FY2013 study results
    • Accepted studies currently under way; final reports to be published in ALMA Memos.

• ADDITIONAL READING:
  • zipfile of all Project science cases and deliverables

15.00 – 15.15 Break

15.15 – 16:00 ALMA2030 Discussion - Bolatto, Wootten, Brogan

• Importance, report content, and progress
  • Help from ANASAC
  • Likely avenues of long-term development

• REQUIRED READING:
  • PATHWAYS TO DEVELOPING ALMA A document to inform the scientific discussions leading to the development of a roadmap for improvements in ALMA
  • Major facilities by 2030
  • Major Science Themes for 20202030

16.00 – 17:30 Committee closed session

• Further discussion of points above and preparation of report

17.30 - 18.00 Feedback to the director

19.00 Dinner Celebration of the Completion of Cycle 1, Commencement of Cycle 2.

Sedona Taphouse 7:00pm Directions from Residence Inn to Sedona Taphouse

Attendees

ANASAC Members

Suspected Attendees

Committee Members: Marrone, Carpenter, Plambeck, Bolatto, Doeleman, Calzetti Others: Frail, Glendenning User Committee Visitors: Chatterjee, Lazio

NRAO/NAASC

NSF

• Phil Puxley

-- AlWootten - 25 Apr 2014

• 03_ANASAC2014_Feedback.pdf: 03_ANASAC2014_Feedback.pdf